Lukasz Twarkowski / STUDIO teatrgaleria

The Employees is a visually stunning tour de force dark satire on Man’s uncertain ‘Future Beyond Planet Earth’ inspired by the 2020 sci-fi epic of Danish writer Olga Ravn. Somewhere out in space, Humans and humanoids – the born and the lab-grown - intermingle in their tasks of running the spaceship to the point that they become ever more indistinguishable from one another. Playful referencing to current-day corporate work-place jargon reinforces a frankly retro style of their imagined world, however the deeper messaging about transhumanism and unavoidable emotional grey-space is sharp and increasingly brutal. As one crew member asks: “Am I human? Does it say in your files what I am?” 

Lukasz Twarkowski is a creator of multimedia performances that combine theatre and visual arts. He places his projects in the context of expanding reality through multimedia. A crucial element of Twarkowski's creative work is the exploration of the potential and limitations of theater as a medium and means of communication. Through the permanent deconstruction of narratives, the questioning of the audience's established habits and the meaningful use of new media, Twarkowski creates a new, original language for theatrical performance based on multimedia and, more broadly, digital technologies. In doing so, Twarkowski analyzes and observes increasingly complex relationships between the real, the symbolic and the imagined.